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Re: Need some help with some Train specs
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Fri, 8 Dec 2000 21:28:29 GMT
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Eric Kingsley wrote:
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> In lugnet.trains, James Trobaugh writes:
> > As I had mention a few months ago, I'm preparing a presentation to my local
> > division of the NMRA on LEGO trains next week. I have most of the
> > presentaion done, but would like to know if anyone knows the real gauge of
> > LEGO track. I know it's "LEGO" gauge, but I want to know the real numbers.
>
> Thats what I told the folks at the Greenberg show last weekend. Many of them
> ran off with a piece of track to measure it but I never asked what they came up
> with.
>
> Just say its "LEGO" gauge because Minifigs aren't to scale with "us" anyway
> hence it doesn't fit into a standard railroad gauge anyway.
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> > Also what is the radius of the track curves?
>
> Really really tight. Also my answer at the Greenberg show. Just say there is
> only one raidus of curve, one length of straight track, left and right points,
> and a crossing (9v of course). Also make sure you mention or demonstraight how
> reliable the track is. I know most of the people looking at our layout
> couldn't believe how smooth the trains ran and how reliable the track was.
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> Oh and it doesn't run on batterys!!! We got lots of what kind of batterys does
> it take too.
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> > I figure these are some of the
> > questions I'll get from the members of the division.
> >
> > If anyone knows of other question that you heard from other train modelers,
> > let me have them too...preferably with the answers :)
>
> Well I put a few things above but also mention that for the most part we all
> design our own rolling stock and engines, they are not kits. Same with the
> buildings. I know most of the model railroaders we talked to said "Oh you
> kit-bash everything". I guess thats what we do and it puts it in model
> railroading terms.
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> For fun if you have something you don't mind dropping on the floor you might
> want to do a drop demonstration to see the looks in their eyes. Then tell them
> you can either put it back together or build something else, its not broken.
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> Have a plain old train motor to display to show them what makes it go and maybe
> demonstraight how you build from that.
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> There is so much that is different from traditional model railroading using
> LEGO trains that you need to "show it all" but also demonstraight that we are
> just as passionate about our hobby as they are about theirs. People don't
> expect much from a LEGO layout but once they see it they see there are real
> possibilities using LEGO as a medium and we can do some really cool stuff.
>
> Eric Kingsley
>
> The New England LEGO Users Group
> http://www.nelug.org/
You mentioned "kit-bashing" before. Maybe some traditional model railroader can
straighten that term out, but I take it to mean that a modeler starts with a
car/kit and changes the things in the kit to turn the kit into the model they
want to make. I saw a very good conversion of a steamer to a cab forward
steamer. The modeler removed the old cab, built a new one (using the old cab and
some plastic goo?) and changed the detail work. I assume that is kit bashing.
That is not quite what we do. We do not buy a steamer and then modify it to look
like a certain kind of steamer, we buy planes, castles, automobiles, boats,
battering rams, nearly everything out there (other than a steamer) and take
pieces and parts and create our models from scratch.
Chris
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| (...) I'd call what we do somewhere between kitbashing and scratchbuilding. Another term sometimes used in the MRR hobby is kitmingling. To use a single term which would easily be understood by model railroaders, I would just say it's very much like (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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| (...) Thats what I told the folks at the Greenberg show last weekend. Many of them ran off with a piece of track to measure it but I never asked what they came up with. Just say its "LEGO" gauge because Minifigs aren't to scale with "us" anyway (...) (24 years ago, 8-Dec-00, to lugnet.trains)
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